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Italian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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Roberto Bacci

Lecturer of Italian

Contact Information

Location: Herter Hall 307
Phone: (413) 545-4951
Email: rbacci AT frital.umass.edu

Education

Laurea summa cum laude, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (Scandinavian and English), Dept. of Literature and Philosophy. Università di Bologna, Italy, 1997.

PhD Candidate, Italian Studies. Brown University. (Admitted to Candidacy, February 2006)

Selected Publications

Article:

  • "'Flegmatikeren hører ikke hjemme i litteraturen.' Arnulf Øverlands poetikk fra hans debut som kunst - og litteraturkritiker (1915) til hans tilslutning til Mot Dag (1922)." Italiablikk: Norsk og nordisk kultur og litteratur sett fra Bologna. Eds. Eva Maagerø, Elise Seip Tønnesen and Randi Langen Moen. Skriftserien 102. Kristiansand (Norway): Høgskolen i Agder, 2003. 21-41.

Translations:

  • Gaarder, Jostein. In uno specchio, in un enigma. Milano: Longanesi & C., 1999. (Original Norwegian: I et speil, i en gåte. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1993). Republished: Milano: TEA, 2001. Novel.
  • Gaarder, Jostein. Vita brevis. Milano: Longanesi & C., 1998. (Original Norwegian: Vita brevis. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1997). Republished: Milano: TEA, 2000. Novel.
  • Fredriksson, Marianne. Le figlie di Hanna. Milano: Longanesi & C., 1998. (Original Swedish: Anna, Hanna och Johanna. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1994). Republished: Milano: TEA, 1999. Novel.
  • Translation into Neo-Norwegian (nynorsk) of poems by contemporary Italian authors (G. Caproni, M. Luzi, A. Rosselli, E. Sanguineti) for the volume Poetisk modernisme. Oslo: Det norske Samlaget, 1995 (in collaboration with Eva Jensen and Guri Vesaas).

Teaching Experience

Brown University, Providence, RI, 2003-2009. Teaching Assistant of Italian.
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1999-2001. Instructor of Italian.
Centro Cultura Italiana, Bologna, Italy, 1997. Instructor of Italian.


Research interests

Western esotericism in the twentieth century. Esotericism and politics during the interwar/fascist period. Fascist culture and society. Individual self-transmutation in literature and philosophy. Self-consciousness and altered states of consciousness in literature, art and philosophy. Modernism and Anti-Modernism in Scandinavian literatures.